Events 2022
December 4 -
New story in the LDS Insights Blog - Presiding Bishoprics Office now responsible for
site, design, contruction and maintenance
November 25 -
New story on the LDS Insights Blog - regarding the popularity of the
Payson Utah Temple
November 23 -
New story on the LDS Insights Blog - New missions opening in 2023
November 15 -
New story on the LDS Insights Blog- Progress on the Remodeling of Temple Square
October 15 -Highlights of the
2022 Fun in the Pool [June 1 - October 15]
September 17 - Reed and his three sons held their annual "Best Ball" tournament at Murray Parkway. This year the pairs were Micheal & Jared versus Robert & Reed. Through the first nine we were tied. Rob played well, but Dad was not good enough as the younger two beat the older two by six strokes.
July 8 - Reed's only brother John Lee Haslam died in Kansas City, Kansas. John left home when Reed was twelve. He spent two years at Cornell University in Ithaca New York, before mvoing to Larence Kansas, home of the University of Kansas. He resided there for fifty-two years.
He had been hospitalized for several months, but was unable to recover from quadruple bypass surgery and a fight with fluid in his lungs. He and he wife Gale had lived in Lawrence Kansas for over 50 years where he worked as a research chemist doing drug development at entities associated with the University of Kansas.
His Church service included Bishop and Stake Patriarch for the Topeka Kansas Stake. He saw the church in Lawrence Kansas grow from a small branch to three wards plus the student ward at the University of Kansas. He also was an ordinance worker at the Kansas City Missouri Temple from shortly after its dedication until the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic began. It was a 140 mile round trip to and from the temple. He was still working part time as a research chemist when he fell ill. He was 83.
Reed and Sherry traveled to Lawrence Kansas for the funeral. The funest part of the day was the police motorcade from the LDS Church that John helped build, to the cemetary. Reed participated by offering the dedicatory prayer at the cemetary.
June 30 - Sherry's older sister Patti Ann Westberg Gilbert passed away at Utah Velley Hospital during surgery. This was so unexpected and so soon after her mother's death that it really rocked the family. She was the mother of three children, Jennifer, Heidi and Nicholas. Her funeral was held on July 7 in Lehi Utah. Family and many friends some from years gone by attended the funeral. She was 68.
May 25 - Sherry's mother Donna Lee Solt Westberg passed away
passed away at the home of her oldest grandchild (an M.D.) in Lehi, Utah. She was the only great-grandparent our grandchildren ever knew. She knew she was going to return home to her heavenly father and made preparations to do so, like purchasing a new white gown and customizing it the way she wanted it. She had gone to the Riverton Hospital less than a week earlier with a gastrointentinal tract infection and as soon as she learned what it might take to defeat it, she happily chose to pass on. Her funeral was on June 9. She was 88.
May 9 -
New story on the LDS Insights Blog - Progress on the Remodeling of Temple Square
April 10 -
New story on the LDS Insights Blog - Analysis of Church Statistics for 2021
December 30 - January 2 - Making the Trek to the Utes' First Rose Bowl Game
We left on Thursday morning December 30, 2021. We needed to get out of town before a significant snow storm hit Utah. Getting some lunch in St. George, we met our first obstacle just before Littlefield, Arizona. It seems the eastbound bridge over a 30 foot deep gully was found to be incapable of supporting its two lanes of traffic. A couple of miles before the bridge traffic must collapse from two lanes into one lane. We hit the stop and go traffic inside the Virgin River gourge. This depayed us for 90 minutes or more. We spent the night in Las Vegas, Nevada.
On the last day of the year we traveled into the Los Angeles basin. We had wante to go to Griffith Observatory, but it was packed with tourists from both sides of the approach to the summit of the hill that it sits on overlooking Los Angeles. We moved to check out the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was busy but not overwhelmingly so. Rob and his family spent the day at Huntington Beach - Sun and Sand play was the only reasonable events on the beach.
It was up early to get to the Rose Parade. We had reserved seats on Colorado Boulevard when it crosses over a freeway, There were no ticket takers, but we found our seats on row three. No one showed up on row two giving us more open space. The parade was marvelous, but somehow even this parade suffered from proper pacing. Next we recharged our phones back at the car and then left on a nearby shuttle to the Rose Bowl. The stadium is 100 years old. No previsions were made for concessions inside so the only place to purchase food or drink was outside! The food was as crazy expensive as were our seats. It was a great game, but Utah came up just a bit short 45-42. The spead was 4 points so they covered that.
See Photos and Videos of the parade and the bowl game.
On January 2nd we returned all the way back home. We tried to avert the delay in Arizona by taking the old highway 91 out of Mesquite which has an on ramp just before the bridge, but the Arizona Highway patrol had it blocked, so we continued on old highway 91 in to St. George.
